Art and Ethical CriticismISBN: 978-1-4443-3787-7
Paperback
304 pages
October 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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Notes on Contributors vii
Foreword xi
Garry L. Hagberg
Part I: Historical Foundations 1
1 Is Ethical Criticism a Problem? A Historical Perspective 3
Paul Guyer
Part II: Conceptions of Ethical Content 33
2 Narrative and the Ethical Life 35
Noel Carroll
3 A Nation of Madame Bovarys: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Improvement through Fiction 63
Joshua Landy
4 Empathy, Expression, and What Artworks Have to Teach 95
Mitchell Green
Part III: Literature and Moral Responsibility 123
5 "Solid Objects," Solid Objections: On Virginia Woolf and Philosophy 125
Paisley Livingston
6 Disgrace: Bernard Williams and J. M. Coetzee 144
Catherine Wilson
7 Facing Death Together: Camus's The Plague 163
Robert C. Solomon
Part IV: Visual Art, Artifacts, and the Ethical Response 185
8 Staying in Touch 187
Carolyn Korsmeyer
9 Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and the Ethical Dimensions of Photography 211
David Davies
10 Ethical Judgments in Museums 229
Ivan Gaskell
Part V: Music and Moral Relations 243
11 Cosi's Canon Quartet 245
Stephen Davies
12 Jazz Improvisation and Ethical Interaction: A Sketch of the Connections 259
Garry L. Hagberg
Index 286